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The first recorded chess game in Malta was in 1880. Leone Benjacar wrote chess articles for the Daily Malta Chronicle in 1880 and created the Malta Chess Club. The Maltese Chess Association was formed in 1923. The first off...
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In 1997, the Japanese ambassador’s mansion in Lima was taken over by a terrorist group (Tupac Amaru rebels), where 72 hostages were held. A chess set was delivered during the hostage crises. Embedded in the chess pieces wer...
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Anupama Abhyankar-Gokhale, born on May 17, 1969, is a chess master from India. She was awarded the Women’s International Master title in 1985. She married chess master Raghunandan Gokhale, chairman of the Mumbai Chess Association and Anupama...
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Hermann Helms (1870-1963) was the first dean of American chess. In 1904, at the Cambridge Springs International, he was the first person to issue daily chess bulletins. He wrote a chess column for 62 years, from 1893 to 1955 in the Bro...
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Ludek Pachman (1924-2003) was a Grandmaster (1954) who was imprisoned twice in Czechoslovakia after openly protesting the Soviet occupation of his land in 1968. He had been editor of one of the daily underground newspapers published illegall...
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William Winter (1898-1955) was an International Master (1950). He was a nephew of Sir James Barrie who wrote Peter Pan and two-time British champion (1935 and 1936). He had been an active Communist Party organizer and was once sentence...
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Slobadan Adzic is a FIDE master. He is a professional journalist living in Novi Sad. From 1985 to 1992, he was the chess editor of the daily newspaper Dnenik in Novi Sad. In 1985, he founded Chess Press in Novi Sad, then moved it...
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Gyula Breyer (1893-1921) was a Hungarian of Grandmaster strength. He set a new blindfold record of 25 opponents (won 15, drew 7, lost 3) in 1921 in Berlin. He was one of the pioneering leaders of hypermodern chess. He was the Hun...
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Sam Loyd (1841-1911) was the most famous American chess composer. He was 14 when his first chess problem was published by a New York newspaper. As a 16 year old, he served with Paul Morphy as a contributor to Chess Monthly. When ...
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In 1890-1891, Isidor Arthur Gunsberg (1854-1930) played Steinitz for the world’s championship and lost after 4 wins, 9 draws, and 6 losses. Gunsberg began his chess career as the player inside the chess automaton Mephisto. H...
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